Ii i r OT A|> Ap Tlfl 1 WORTH 1 tLllj 1 iV-tt vJJI X XXrj -\l wlrX X XX# I. .J..J ■■ ■■ ■ 1 , VT B. W. Helm Proprietor.] VOLUME 7. THE STAR OFTHE NORTH I* PC BUSH ID EVERT THURSDAY MOBBING BT It. W. WEAVER, OFFICE— f/p stairs, in the new brisk build ing, on the south side oj Main Street, third equate below Market. TERMS: —Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the lime of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months ; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages ere paid, nnless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar end twenty fire cents for each additional in eertiofl. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. For tire Star of the North. KEW YORK CURRESPOMUKNCE. MONDAY, May 21, 1855. The beautiful back summersault or flip flap, by which the Chevalier YVikofT has thrown himself into the embrace of James Gordon Benne'tt, is provoking a shower of satirical articles from the city press. Among ell the foea ef the proprietor of the Herald, not one—with the exception, perhaps, of the late Major Noah—has been so bitter, so per sonal, so direct in the attacks, as this seme Wikoff. He not only accused Bennett of re ceiving bribes from Fanny Elssler, bnt speci fied the articles and their cost. Soon after Fanny's departure from this country, he opened hi* budget of facts, and by the preci sion of hi* charges, and the oorroborative tes timony by which he sustained them, bother ed the " Napoleor. of the press" pretty con siderably. But the proprietor of the Herald is a man who bides l)is time. Sometimes he floor* his enemies by Incessant and uncom promising persecution in print—lomelimes by nnexpected acts of forbearance or kind ness. He seems to have brought Mr. Wi koff down by abstaining from u vailing him •olf of the lex talionis, while the Chavalier was "under a cloud." It seetns that he met Mr. Wikoff in London, soon after.the re lease of that personage from the Italian pri son where be had been immured for ma king love to Miss Gamble against her will— Bennett, who, as everybody knows, lias a heart attuned to the softest sympathies, con soled and comforted the love-lorn and penni less wight. Perhaps be lent him mnny. At any rate, he won golden opinions from the Chevalier; and aa good actions never go unrewarded, lie baa reaped the fruits of bis geflbrosity, in the shape of a moat abject apology from his old antagonist. Of coarse the Chevalier cannot deny that he charged Bennett with hiaok-tnailkig Fanny Elssler, but he gets over the difficulty by expressing | his belief that the presents were delivered to the ladies of the family, and that Mr. 8., himself would never to tale Ibem. Bui this statement conflicts on the one hand with WikofFs denunciation of the Herald proprietor as "the craving shark of j the press," and on the other gives Mrs. B. a j wipe, which must be very galling to a chiv-1 alrous and devoted husband! \?e can hard-I ly think that Mr. Bennett will allow his wile | to he made tbe scape-goat lor bis own alle ged oflsnce. Should he do so, we may yet have an interesting appendix to the story from the lady herself. As the case stands at present, the entente cordialt which formerly •übaisted between Mr. Bennett and Mr. Wi koff may be considered as restored. It I* well for wine driokers that the enc easeful cultivation of the grape in this coun try will soon enable ns to brsw a sufficient quantity of the article for home use ; other wise our bons vivants would stand a fair chanoe of being poisoned. The quantity of nnsotind wine proddeed in Portugal last year | was enormous, and as the disease of the Eu ropean gfape seems to be as Incurable as that of the potato, a like result may be ex pected evert season. Tbe French chemists, however, have devised a method of disgui sing tbe evil as far aa-flavor is concerned, and we are likely to be flooded with un wholesome Port, which osnnot be distin guished by the taste from the pure: article— Information has been received hers, that shout thirty thousand pipes of wine have re cently been thus treated at Oporto, and that a large amount of the vile trash will be ex ported to this country. The best thing we ean do is to stick to our own Catawba. We can make as good wine in tbe United Slates ! as ever raa from a French, Portuguese;! Spanish, or Rhenish vat. The latest fashion ia Bonnets, u received I from Parish, by the last steamer, indicates that the ut ibey in sist tbat the transcendent merit* ef ibis work are such, that the most extravagant praise bestowed, upon it would fall far short of what it actually deserves, as a history, and a work of truth. The work alluded to is "the Life of Judas Ghoul Beennetl," by Isaac C. Pray, who, say the publishers, is every way the most accomplished men in the-Ur.ion. Mr. Pray is an oily genius, for merly connected with the Htrald, but who, falling under the displeasure of the "-sole proprietor" of that rema-kable sheet, wan dered round for some time, until he became converted to spirituralism, and was appoin ted by the spirits to the management of a pa per devoted to their interests. After a while they dismissed him to; laziness and general incapacity, and ha then determined, like the illustrious. Wikoff, to reestablish himself in the good giaces of Judas Ghoul Bennett, at all hazards. Hence the biography now un der consideration. It will have an immense sale. No scoundrel's library should be without it. Gov. GARDNER'S VETO OF THE PKRSONAI. LIB ERTY BlLL.—Governor Gardiner, of Massachu setts, in giving his reasons for vetoing the bill which imposes penalties for returning a fugitive slave, savs: . " 1 have taken a solemn oath to support the Constitution of and the Con stitution of the United Stales. No earthly power or influence Bhould induce me to be knowingly disloyal to that sacred obligation. Those oaths of office, the sober convictions of duty, and the fealty of an Americau citizen cdnspire to forbid it. " Unconstitutional Aactments tending to an armed conflict between onr State and Na tional systems of government which must re sult in the submission of one, alike fatal whichever it is, should be equally shun'ded by judicious statesmanship, as well a patri otic duly. In such delicately balanced or ganizations, the integrity of the one should be preserved as zealously as the humiliation of the other should be atfbided. "The legal adviser given me by the stat utes of the Commonwealth pronounces the bill now before me unconstutional in some of its provisions. The Supreme Judicial Court also, in an opinion signed by all its Justices, in reply to a question propounded to them by myself, stole as follows' When any person, either citizen or stronger, has rdhder ed himself amenable to the legal process of both governments,' (the Federal and State,) •the one which, by its process and its offi cers. first obtains the lawful custody of snoh person, acquires a priority of jurisdiction 1 which cannot be rightfully or legally defeat by the other, until the process first attach ing shall hare been satisfied or discharged.' " But these opinions are clear and onmis takeable, and there are no higher authorities krtown to oor law* or to Our judgments. Be ing unwilling, therefore, to lead Massachu- 1 setts into a position hostile to the harmony of the confederacy, which is essential to the permanent interests of the Commonwealth and the Republic jto course is felt me but to I withhold my sanction frntn this bill." The Legislature has since passed the law, orer the Governor's head. It will very like- I ly place Massachusetts in the same position South Carolina found herself, in General Jack son's administration. | WOMAN'S RIGHTS.— The Legislature of Wis consin has recently passed a law relative to the rights of married women. It is as fol lows " Any married woman whose husband, ei ther from drunkenness, profligacy or from ' any ether cause, shall neglect or refuge to provide for her support or for the support and education of her children, shall have the righ t In ber own name to transact business and to receive and collect her own earnings and the earnings of her minor children, and apply the same for her own support and the support and 'education of her children, free from the con j trol am] interference of her husband pr any oilier person claiming the same, or claiming to be released from the same by or throngh her husband: Provided, That if it ia denied by plea that either ol the causes enumerated in this net as entitling the married woman to sue in her name exists ia point of fast, then the isaue upon this plea shall be tried and oe -1 termined by the juty trying the case with the other Issues submitted." OPPOSITION TO EXTORTION. —The Lyons (Frat'.cs) papers tell the following; About a year ago, a JMr. Flemming, a merchant, of London, stoppod at a hotel in Frankfort, Ger many, fur two days, and when about leaving found his bill amounted to 50 florins, which ha refused, tp pay, as exhorbitpnt. By the law of Frsnkfort, he 'was arrested and lock ed up—the same law compelling bis creditor to support him, and furnish him with clothes and other articles suitable to HTs condition in life. At the expiratioa of elevea months, the landlord finding himself minus nearly 30,000 frances, let his debter free, who, iramedtate ly on his release, gave a sum equal to doob le that expended by the hotel-keeper, to the poor of Frankfori. Mr. Flemming's country men at Lyons gave him a dinneron the tfith olt. To Bamrnr LAND APPLICANTS— A divorce cannot restore a woman to the right or con dition of widowhood. In other words, the Commissioner of Persons has decided that the widow of * deceased soldier having mar ried again, and having been divorced frqp; her second husband, is not entitled to hdttQty land In right of the first husband. | Truth and Eight God and war Country. - Bale or the Main Line. Pursuant to the act of the La gislalure, the Governor has advertised the Main Line of State Works, Jo be sold at the Exchange In thisoiiy.. The property to be sold includes: the whole Main Line of Public Works, be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg, consisting of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, the Allegheny Portage Railroad, including i the new road to avoid the Inclined Planes, the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania Ca nal, from Columbia to the Junotion, the Jo-' niatta division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from the Junction to the Eastern terminus of the Allegheny Portage Railroad, and the Western division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from the Western terminus of the Allegheny 1 Portage Railroad to PilUburg, and including I also the bridge over the Sgsquehanna at Dan-' can's Island, together with alt the surplus I water power of said Canals, and' all the Res- { ervoirs, Machinery, Locomotives, Cars, Trucks, Stationary Engines, Work Shops, I Water Stations, Toll Houses, Ofhes, Stock and Materials whatsoever and wheresoever there unto belonging, or held for the use of the same, and together with all the right, title, interest, claim and demand of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania to all property„real, personal and nixed belonging to the seme, on the terms and conditions prescribed by by the said Act of Assembly, copies of which may be obtained on application at, or letter addressed to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, at Harrisburg, Pennsylva nia. THE MASTER SPIRIT AT SEBASTOPOL—The head engineer at Sebastopol is a young man named Todleben, who at the commencement of the siege was a captain and almost un- j known. When the siege commenced, Prince Menachikoff, it is said, asked the then head engineer bow long it would lake to put the place in a slate of defence. He answered, 'Two Months.' Todleben stepped forward and said he wonld undertake to do it, if he bad as many*men as he required, in two weeks. He did it in twelve days, and was made colonel. Since that time he has had the direction of everything in the way of building balteries, defences, &c. The other day the Grand Doke called upon his wife, who is residing in Si. Petersburg, to congrat ulate her upon her husband's promotion ; for | he is now General and Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor. The Rnssians adopt the common sense practice ol taking the mnn who will do the work best and they got it best done— This is the practice in well-conducted private business ; it is still more necessary in public service, wheie the consequences of mistake ! through incompetency and ignorance may af fect a whole nation. TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTY or THE POPE DE NIED. —Archbishop Kenriek, in bia pastoral letter,just published in Baltimore, makes the following allusion to tbe temporal power of the Pope: "To the General and State Governments you owe allegiance in all that regards the civil order: the authorities of the Church challenge your obedience in the things of salvation. We have no need of predhing this distinction, which you fully understand end constantly observe. You know that we have ; uniformly taught you, both publicly and privately, to perform alt the dnties of good citizens, and that we have never exact ed of yon, as we ourselves have nevei made, even to the highest ecclesiastical authority, any engagemenli inconsistent with Ihe du ties we owe to the country and its laws. On every opportune occasion, we have avowed these principles, and even in our communi cations to the late Podtifl, we rejected as a calumny the imputation that we were, in civil matters subject to his authority." * tSTSm David Brewster makes the following remarks relative to the structure of the sun. So strong has been the belief that the sun cannot be a habitable world, that a scientific gentleman was pronounced by his medical attendant to-be insane, because he had sent a paper to the Royal Society, in whioh he maintained that the light of the sun proceeds from a dense and universal aurora, which may afford ample light to the inhabitants of the surface beneath, and yet be at suoh a dis tance aloft as not to be among tbem ; (hat there may bs water and dgg,land there, bills and dales, rain and fair weather, end that as -the light and seasons most be eternal, the snn may easily be conceived to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system: In lees than ten year* after this apparently extravagant notion-was considered a proof ol insanity, it was maintained by Sir William Hersohel as a rational and probable opinion, which might be deductible from his own oV servation on the structure of the siin. FROM BAD TO WORSE.—Mr. Hiss, the ex pelled member ol the Massachusetts Legis lature, has been trying to gel his case before the Courts, and had himself arretted for debt. The Court refused to hear til* case, unless affidavit, was made that the case was a (rue one, and not made up to get into the Courts. Hiss backed out, and subsequently finding ho did owe somebody, had himself re-arrested. But the Judge refused a habeas corpus, and Mr. Hiss has to remain In jail. This was an unexpected retail. COMPLIMENTARY— WEzay!—At a lecture of Bayard Taylor's, lately, a lady wished-for a ■eat, when a portly bandawue gentleman brought one, apd sealed her. " Oh, you're a jewel!, 9 said she, "Oh, no," he replied, " I'm a jeweller—l heve just est the jeweH!" FRANCIS JOSEPH, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. - For the " Star of (he North." EUROPE: llf 1835. 8T R. W. WEAVER. (CONTINUED.) Until the year 1826 die Janizaries ruled Constantinople like the old Prmiorian Guard once ruled Rome, when it made Emperors mere poppets to execute us decrees. In 1807 these Janizaries gained their last victory, and under Mahmoud, the father of the pres ent Sultan, they were annihilated. That prince was elevated over the murdered corpse of his brother Mustaphn, who, at the command of the Janizaries,bad himself given outers to destroy Mahmoud: for, as in degenerate Rome, might gave right, and the sword meas ured justice betweeu brothers. The rebel lions Janizaries were summoned by the new Sultan to appear before the banner of the nrophvl mm m sign mi MbntMHsu: They re fused to qbey. Thrice was the summons re peated. They not only refused obedience ; bnt put todeath thegrand vizier and twoother high offieera of flie crown who had borne the royal mandate. All hope of treating with this array of rnthless barbarians was now abandoned—the final order was given to Ihe artillerists to march upon them; and us soon as they wete driven into their bs.rraoks, a destructive fire of bomb-shells and cannon balls was poured in upon them. Those who esoaped from the burning barracks were smitten down by shot or sword, without stint or quarter. The seme course was fol lowed up throughout the provinces, so that in a few weeke no*, a Janizary was left to rehearse the story; the order was utterly de stroyed ; tbe last spark of its life was trod den OH! io-lhe remotest corner of the land, and from that day Turkey, having abjured the spirit of her old Moslem policy, arose to make gnm) her claim to an honorable posi tion in the redlm of European civilization. Mahmoud continued as he began this work. He encouraged literature, developed the physical resooroes ol the eouulry, -es tablished common schools and schools of ag riculture, adopted the latest improvements in naval architecture under the eye of an Amer ican ship-builder, and welcomed men of genius from all tbe world. A new impulse now drove the blood through those sluggish veins, and even Religious Liberty fled to tbe shelter of the crescent for, protection u-hen bloated and hypocritical hierarchies became the persecutors - in Western Europe. The true Crescent shamed the flctlous Cross; and the exiles of Freedom fled to the star in the East for repose and safely. And Turkey has continued faitbftil to her sentiment. She has protected thosb American missionaries arid teachers; whom Surrounding nations would have persecuted. She threw ihe shield ot her power oveV the brave Kossuth and his companions IH'fhfc hour of peril, despite the frowns and throats of her allies and her ene mies; aiifl'frfyih'ese deeds of moral heroism America stretches out her hand to the Mos lem hi the Spirit of blrCThefhood, end bids him God-speed in his career of magnanimi ty, charity and honor. We should be able to reciprocate the spirit of the benediction in which the Sultan Mah moud once greeted one of ofir countrymen, as detailed bfyah'Amerieair WvGler. It was called forth by an occasion of great Interest fo the people of Conbtkntindple—the first launob of a vessel of war built by tin Amer ican architect. At die appointed time, while this superintendent, M*. Rhodes, was prepar ing lor toe launch, tbe Sultan Mahmoud witb bis attendants arrived at tbe navy yard. After the Upaa of several minutes, a pacha approached Mr. Rhodes, and informed him that the Sultan had sent him to inquire j whether more- mho would not be required to assist in the work. Mr. Rhode# replied, No : he had men enough. Tbe Sultaa was surprised when tbe answer was reported, inasmuch as be supposed that a body of a hundred meo ot more would be needed to start the vessel, by dregging.it from its place with repes'after the old Turkish fashion— Thinking it quite impossible that so few men as he saw at work were sufficient for the purpose, and that the question or the an swer had perhaps been misunderstood, he sent the pacha back to esk if it would not be agreeable to Mr. Rhodes to have a body of soldiers ordered up from the barracks. Mr. Rhodes in his haste replied rather abruptly, that he needed no help, aud wished to be let alone. This answer was also reported to the Sultan, who seemed rather mors as founded than before. But just then the blocks were knocked away, and the noble ship glided forward majestically "like a thing of life," as if hasting to be embraced by ihe placid waters ol the Golden Horn. Msh wood could not restrain bis emotion, and lifting his hand toward heaven he exclaim ed "God is great I God is great! God help him, if he is an infidel!" From Abdul Alejid humanity and civiliza tion have much more to expect than from OT Five locomotives aw made monthly, at the works ol Baldwin 4 Co , Philadelphia, Their ayerag# weight is twenty tons. Their cost from #9,000 to #IO,OOO each. The hand* employed receive from#4,ooo to #5,000 each W Don't run in debt M yea o*n prevent .it. ■ - r • • ' js